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EU-India: new Trade and Technology Council to lead on digital transformation, green technologies and trade

The European Union and India have strengthened their relationship as strategic partners by setting up a new Trade and Technology Council (TTC).

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The new TTC will deepen strategic engagement on trade and technology between both partners. This follows the announcement by President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, on 25 April 2022 in New Delhi. It will be co-chaired on the EU side by Executive Vice-Presidents Margrethe Vestager and Valdis Dombrovskis, and on the Indian side by Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs, Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry, and Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology.

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